How many opposing QBs in 2017 will be better than LSU's QB?

LSU quarterback Danny Etling is back for his final year and is coming off back surgery. Freshman quarterback Myles Brennan is still taking occasional first-team snaps, leaving open the possibility that coach Ed Orgeron could name him the starter.

So how does the LSU quarterback position compare to the team's 2017 opponents? Read our writers' opinions, then share your thoughts here.

Better is in the eye of the beholder.

Does better mean strictly the quarterbacks with gaudier stats? Does better mean precisely the QBs who make the big plays when needed? Does better mean someone with straight up more talent?

Because returning LSU starter quarterback Danny Etling has a healed back and is in a new offensive system that gives him more options, I’m calling it dead even at 6-6.

Etling is better than the QBs from Tennessee and Texas A&M (at least one is a new, unproven starter) and from BYU, Chattanooga, Syracuse and Troy. On the flip side, he’s not better than Alabama’s Jalen Hurts, Mississippi State’s Nick Fitzgerald, Ole Miss’ Shea Patterson, Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham and Florida’s Malik Zaire.

If I had to pull one QB off this side of the list, it might be Zaire who has played in just nine games (he was hurt as a sophomore in game two) and attempted just 58 passes the past two seasons. In 2014, Zaire was the MVP of the Music City Bowl, which Notre Dame won 31-28 over LSU on a day then-LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis had one foot through the door headed to Texas A&M to take a similar job. -- Ron Higgins

LSU football vs. Miss.. Danny Etling : LSU vs Mississippi State

LSU Tigers quarterback Danny Etling (16) makes his way into the locker room after the LSU Tigers beat the Mississippi State Bulldogs 23-20 in Baton Rouge on Saturday, September 17, 2016. (Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)